Machine for removing snow and ice.



No. 678,277. Patentad July 9, I90l. c. PDORE.

MACHINE FOR REMOVING SNOW AND ICE.

(Application filed Sept. 6, 1900.) (No Model.) 3 Sheets-Sheet I.

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MACHINE FOR REMOVING SNOW AND ICE.

(Application flied Sept. 6, 1900.

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No. 678,277. Patented July 9, 19m; 0. PODRE.

MACHINE FOB RENDVING SNOW AND ICE.

(A plication filed Sept. 6, 1900.) (No Indel.) 3 Shaats$hoet 3.

UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

CHARLES POORE, OF WESTERN SPRINGS, ILLINOIS.

IVIACH INE FOR REMOVING SNOW AND ICE.

SPECIFIGATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 678,277, dated July 9, 1901. Application filed September 6, 1900. Serial No. 29,147. (No model.)

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, CHARLES POORE, residing at Western Springs, in the county of Cook and State of Illinois, have made certain new and useful Improvements in Machines for Bemoving Snow and Ice, of which the following is a specification.

My machine is adapted for use on railroads, city streets, and common roads. It is provided in front with rotary drums which cut and take up the snow and ice and deliver them into a heated receptacle where they are melted, the water into which they arecon- Verted being conducted off at the side of the machine. The said receptacle is heated by electric incandescent lamps, and the drums are rotated by electric power from the same source.

In the accompanying drawings, Figure 1 is a perspective view of the machine. Fig. 2 is a plan View, the top or cover being removed. Fig. 8 is and end view, the cover-plate being removed. Fig. iis an end view of one of the drums.

N indicates an oblong rectangular frame, and V transverse iioor beams or bars, both of which are constructed of steel, iron, or any other suitable material. The said frame has about twice the length of the gage of an ordinary railroad-track and is provided} interiorly with supporting-wheels T, (see Fig. 3,) that run 011 rails R. I propose to provide another form of wheels when the machine is intended for use on streets or other roadways.

Over the transporting-wheels T and in front of the motors M is arranged a receptacle for snow and ice, the same consisting mainly of a horizontal floor I, from whose rear edge a back H extends upward in nearly vertical position. This receptacle is open at the front side'and provided with lamps L and constitutes a heater for melting the snow and ice received from the drums A, and spout O is arranged at one end of the heater H I for delivery of water at the side of the road or into a tank that may be provided for the purpose.

I have found aluminium to be a preferable material for use in forming the back H and floor I of the snow and ice receptacle owing to its superior heat-conducting quality. Its

lightness is also a valuable feature in the construction of the machine.

I arrange some suitable non-conductor of heat K behind the lamps L, so that the latter are practically in a closed chamber. The lamps L are of the incandescent electric type and arranged beneath the floor I and behind the back H. They should be of high voltage and candle-powersay three hundred. Conductors W lead to the lamps from a trolleywire. (Not shown.)

Electric motors M are arranged in the rear portion of the frame N, and their shafts are provided at their inner ends with pulleys P, (see Fig. 2,) from which chains or belts S run to similar pulleys P, mounted on the inner ends of the alined shafts or axes of two rotary drums A A. Electromotive force is supplied to said motors by conductors W. The drums are arranged at the front of and parallel to the frame N, their axes being journaled in bearings attached to and supported by horizontal bars N, (see Figs. 2 and3,') forming forward extensions of the lower portion of the frame N. Rods Z serve as aids in bracing the supports N. The bodies of said drums are cylindrical and provided with a series of straight radial blades or wings D, which are arranged equidistantly and supported rigidly by braces X, as well as by attachment of their ends to skeleton circular frames or spiders G, that project radially beyond the bodies A of the drums. Thus one of such parts G is arranged at each end of a drum A and also at a point intermediate their ends. On these circular frames G are journaled rotary cutting-disks E, one such being located between each two blades D. The function of these disks is to cut the snow and ice and that of the blades D is to take up the same and throw them back into the open front of the heater H I, it being understood that the direction of rotation of the drums is upward on the front side, as indicated by arrow, Fig. 3. At the ends of the alined drums A, I arrange plates F to serve as snow dividers or fenders.

I intend the machine shall be propelled by any form of motor-say electric motors suitably arranged on its frame and fed from a trolley-or that it shall be pushed in front of a locomotive or any other propelling agent.

It is obvious that as the machine advances the drums A will be rotated, and the disks E thereby caused to cut the snow, and that the blades D will take up such portion as intervenes the cuts so made and throw it back into the heating-receptacle,Where it will be melted by heat derived from the lamps L.

WVhat I claim is 1. The improved snow and ice remover comprising the frame or body having transportlug-Wheels at its ends, the snow-receptacle open at the front and having a hollow back and bottom, a series of incandescent electric lamps located therein, the rotary snow and ice removing drums located in front of said receptacle, electric motors arranged at the rear of the frame, means for connecting said drums and motors and electric conductors forming part of an electric circuit which inl cludes the said lamps and motors, as shown and described.

2. The snow and ice cutting and removing drums, comprising an axis, a suitable body,

a series of cutters projecting radially, and a series of intervening radial blades or wings, all arranged as shown and described.

3. The snow and ice removing drum comprising an axis, the cylindrical body, the spiders arranged to project radially, a series of rotarydisks jourualed thereon, and a series of radial blades or Wings, all arranged as shown and described.

4. The combination with the Wheeled frame having an open-front receptacle located therein, of the rotary snow and ice removing drum I located in front of said frame, and having radial cutters and intervening blades, substantially as shown and described.

In testimony whereof I have signed my 1 name to this specification in the presence of two subscribing witnesses.

CHARLES POORE.

Witnesses: O. E. PATTEN, l J. B. BEOKETT. 

